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From Enterprise to Enterprise

From CV-6 to CVN-80, the developments of and improvements to aircraft-carrier design form a continuum from the early days of naval aviation to the horizon of tomorrow.

At the December decommissioning of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65), Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced that the third carrier of the new Gerald R. Ford class, CVN-80, also will be called the Enterprise . It is the right time to reflect on how appropriate it is for CVN-80 to perpetuate that legendary name, for she is the product of the evolution of the two previous Enterprise s.

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